Nathan Pusey, former Harvard president dead--Mr. Pusey was the target of attacks from both the political right and left during most of his years as a university leader - initially because of a coincidence in geography. He began his teaching career at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., near the birthplace of Senator McCarthy, and later served as the college's president from 1944 to 1953. He and McCarthy, who was first elected to the US Senate in 1946, quickly became enemies. During the 1952 Senate race, Mr. Pusey published a pamphlet outlining the Republican senator's public record and highlighting McCarthy's unproved claims that the US government was infiltrated with communists.
The senator, in turn, denounced Mr. Pusey. On hearing the news that Mr. Pusey would head east to Cambridge, McCarthy said, ''Harvard's loss is Wisconsin's gain.''